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Date: Wednesday
6th June 2018 Day started out by
visiting the Ashadeep centre in Marole (andheri east). This was my first play
session. We took a while to find each other on the road and then had to walk
almost a km into the community which gave us a good chance to understand the
community life. We passed fishing markets, a very pretty church and lots of
houses. Outside one house there was a grandmother, her daughter/daughter-in-law
cleaning vegetables, and 2 kids playing with some toys and there was music
playing from inside and all of them miming the words. We were 3 of us-
the field officer, Chloe (my fellow volunteer and me).

When we reached the
centre, the children were already busy playing with different toys. They looked
so happy to see us and were excited to let us join in and play with them. There
was a box of games on the side and it seemed like the children had already
picked out their favourite games, made their groups and were all set to get the
games started! Children ar…

Toybank, an initiative under The Opentree Foundation, is an organization in India that promotes the Right to Play for all children, because a happy childhood defines almost every aspect of a child’s life and in turn the society. Founded in August 2004, our motto is to provide every economically-disadvantaged child an equal opportunity to education, achieved through healthy play and games.
As of January 2018, Toybank has set up 276 Play Centers and impacts the lives of 43,009 at-risk children every day.